022 - Holidays & Sobriety

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🗓️ 5 December 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We talk to Dr. Ted Roberts about what he calls the "Limbic Holiday," aka the Holiday Season. We discuss the issues and struggles that so many have with family and addiction over the holidays. We also talk about ways to maintain sobriety and support your spouse during this stressful season.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Pure Desire podcast, where we partner with you to bring hope and freedom on your journey to purity.
0:14.5	Hey there, I'm your host, Trevor Windsor, and we're so thankful you're taking time out of your day to hang out with us. I am here, as always, with my co-host, Nick Stumbo. Go Hawks! And we have a very special guest today, our founder, Dr. Ted, Robert's, welcome back to the podcast. Hey, great to be with you guys. Good to have you, Ted. Thanks. We are happy to have you back with us to talk really about the season of relapse, or better
0:38.7	known as the holiday season.
0:40.8	And we're going to see today as we talk that the holiday season can be a consistent trigger
0:45.0	for men and women out there.
0:46.8	And today we really just want to spend time with Ted and talk about ways to set yourself
0:50.6	up for success over the holidays.
0:53.1	And Ted, you're going gonna help us talk through that.
0:54.7	Are you ready?
0:55.3	Yeah, I'm ready.
0:56.1	All righty.
0:57.0	Well, let's just start with this, Ted.
0:58.2	You've referred to this season as a season of relapse.
1:01.8	Why do you call the holiday season, the season of relapse?
1:05.1	Well, actually, I call it a limbic holiday.
1:07.1	Christmas is a particular limbic holiday.
1:10.1	Been counseling people for 30 years.
1:11.4	I remember the first couple years I couldn't figure out what was going on at Christmas.
1:14.9	They were just massive relapse.
1:16.2	And I never could put the pieces together.
1:17.5	I'll ask this guy one question.
1:18.8	I said, when you're with mom and dad and you relapse, how old do you feel?
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